Nimble.ie & Bebo

failsafe · 07-05-2007 7:56pm #1

Has anybody noticed this website (nimble.ie) creeping up in comments around bebo? I read an article on it, apparently a project by a lad in DIT, which then took off into a commercial venture, poised to be "the next bebo"!

What I was wondering is has anyone joined it? I see alot of comments on other peoples pages, but they all look so generic as if they're being left by a bot or something. I know bebo did that when they started, asked for your email address and password, then accessed your email and sent a mail to all of your contacts, so I was wondering if this is something similar. Does nimble.ie log into your bebo and leave viral comments on all your friends pages or something?? It's sneaky but I still think it's quite clever, and with the way bebo are going crazy with their a-bit-too-stalkery "changes" section, i wouldn't mind seeing it take of and have some of the cash flow from the social networking craze fall in Irish pockets.

And obviously, a post about Bebo on boards will merit all the "Bebo? Isn't that for 14 old girls" whitty replies, so I look forward to them too!

Feral Mutant · 07-05-2007 8:03pm

I'd say they were left by a bot, or there's an option to "tell your friends on bebo about this". I've gotten a few and they're identical except for the name. I don't see it taking. The main slogan I've seen for it is that it's an irish bebo, which seems a bit pointless with bebo's popularity in Ireland.

cson · 07-05-2007 8:18pm

Looking at some of the profiles on bebo.....I fear for the future of literacy in this country. I don't believe for a second we've got 90% literacy rates.

Heisenberg. · 07-05-2007 8:43pm

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insafehands · 07-05-2007 8:47pm

Call me cynical, but I'd give 7/2 that the OP has something to do with this website.

And what a shít name too...

EDIT: Those odds have been revised to 3/1.

Reasons:

- "The next Bebo"? - Who said that?
- Taking the effort to type the address again in your post, hmmm, don't really see why that's necessary as it's in the thread title, unless of course, you're trying to "spread the word" as much as possible.
- OP seems to have designed a website already.
- Just smells of an attempt at sly promotion.

Alessandra · 07-05-2007 8:55pm

I joined purely because I got a load of emails from friends, all generic which I don't thin they actually sent. It's a poor mans bebo. I hate bebo with avengance but this is worse. They allow 12year olds to sign up! There are forums and loads of children between 13-17 appear to be hooked on it. It's still quite basic but the colours and flashiness will be a winner with the teenagers. Also seems to be geared towards dating with options such as 'meeting' and 'market', wtf

Personally I don't think any self-respecting adult would use this. I deleted the acc i set up after a quick look. But apparently they've gained a few thousand members in the last week alone. Do we really need another social networking site?

Rhyme · 07-05-2007 9:04pm

Reminds me of that 'Bebo for DCU' thing a few years back, Ducky.ie or something. We don't need another one of these. Bebo, MySpace, Friendster and Facebook are already too much.

That said, i quite like Bebo, but thats where it ends

phantom_lord · 07-05-2007 9:08pm

yeah i remember that ducky thing.

nimble wont take off, it's far too late into the market.

marco murphy · 07-05-2007 9:13pm

Its ****e. Anyway, most of my mates think bebo is irish anyway :P

drdre · 07-05-2007 9:42pm

i dont think they can take over bebo.The site is crap in my opinion

Savman · 08-05-2007 12:27am

insafehands wrote:

Call me cynical, but I'd give 7/2 that the OP has something to do with this websites.

And what a shít name too...

EDIT: Those odds have been revised to 3/1.

Reasons:

- "The next Bebo"? - Who said that?
- Taking the effort to type the address again in your post, hmmm, don't really see why that's necessary as it's in the thread title, unless of course, you're trying to "spread the word" as much as possible.
- OP seems to have designed a website already.
- Just smells of in an attempt at sly promotion.

My initial thoughts also.

failsafe · 08-05-2007 12:28am

insafehands wrote:

Call me cynical, but I'd give 7/2 that the OP has something to do with this websites.

And what a shít name too...

EDIT: Those odds have been revised to 3/1.

Reasons:

- "The next Bebo"? - Who said that?
- Taking the effort to type the address again in your post, hmmm, don't really see why that's necessary as it's in the thread title, unless of course, you're trying to "spread the word" as much as possible.
- OP seems to have designed a website already.
- Just smells of in an attempt at sly promotion.

Yeah I actually felt my post was gonna come accross that way! My original title was gonna be something like "nimble - a bit dodgy?" or something to that affect because of the way they run that bebo account hack type thing (if that's what it is) but then I decided to soften on them a bit because I remembered bebo did the same thing with the emails.

To be honest, the whole point of the thread was to enqire if someone had an account, and if these posts i see on bebo automated by a nimble bot, so to speak!

Personally I haven't got an account, and I don't think I would, it looks a bit seedy, going for the "guys and girls who love to flirt" angle. Also, I don't think I'd trust a site that would pull a stunt like that with my personal info (if that is an automated thing!)

Oh and the name in the title and body of the post, who would be that desperate to "spread the word"!!

08-05-2007 11:29am

Create your own page, its free!
The SignUp button has temporarily been removed from the site as there is currently more traffic than the server can handle. Please check back soon as we will increase capacity very shortly! Thanks for your understanding and interest in nimble!

Hah, screwed!

drdre · 08-05-2007 11:41am

Deleted User wrote:

Hah, screwed!

Its just a hype there trying to create.

failsafe · 08-05-2007 6:52pm

Not so sure, first time i went to the site i just got a white screen with "server error." Seems more underprepared than overpopular

gunnery · 08-05-2007 11:41pm

failsafe: Im curious: when Bebo set up in 2005 did they send out a whole bunch of emails to get people to join or what did they do?

I never heard anything about that before.

Gunnery

By the way, I tried the nimble thing and it seems pretty cool to me.

insafehands · 09-05-2007 2:55am

gunnery wrote:

failsafe: Im curious: when Bebo set up in 2005 did they send out a whole bunch of emails to get people to join or what did they do?

I never heard anything about that before.

Gunnery

By the way, I tried the nimble thing and it seems pretty cool to me.

Oh really! I'll go join right now! Great first post by the way...

Mossy Monk · 09-05-2007 4:33pm

gunnery wrote:

failsafe: Im curious: when Bebo set up in 2005 did they send out a whole bunch of emails to get people to join or what did they do?

I never heard anything about that before.

Gunnery

By the way, I tried the nimble thing and it seems pretty cool to me.

I am sold. What's your 2nd post going to be about?

gunnery · 09-05-2007 6:19pm

Mossy Monk and insafehands:

Are you people KGB or SS?

Whats with the third degree? Is this a re-enactment Orvilles 1984?
A nation built around suspicion.........

angelbaby · 09-05-2007 6:24pm

i joined nimble to see what it was like cos i kept hearin about it. it seems to be doing quite well so far cos when i joined about 2weeks ago there were only about 200 members, there's now over 20,000!!!

spurious · 09-05-2007 6:28pm

The advantage of nimble over bebo (at the moment) is that it's not blocked by the Schools' Filtering System on all computers under the Schools' Broadband scheme.

Nimble Team · 09-05-2007 8:33pm

Hi All,

Thank you for your feedback above. We are a young Irish start up company and we are still working on making the site better. So I hope we don’t disappoint everyone.

The site has taken off slightly quicker than initially expected and as a result we had to take the sign up button away while upgrading to a faster server. This is now in place.

Re the Bebo thing, Bebo members were able invite their friends through nimble of they wished. We did not at any stage use people’s data incorrectly.

We now have 25K members. And we are always open to suggestions on how to improve the site so please send them on to us. There is a suggestion box within the site in the Forum.

FYI There is a lot of additional functionality on top of the norm of a social networking sites e.g. see who has visited you, ignore function, hot or not, web forum, chat rooms etc etc etc…

Thanks for your support and interest.

See you there,
The Nimble Team

Dyr · 10-05-2007 11:17am

gunnery wrote:

Mossy Monk and insafehands:

Are you people KGB or SS?

Whats with the third degree? Is this a re-enactment Orvilles 1984?
A nation built around suspicion.........

Just cos you're paranoid doesnt mean the'yre not out to get you..unfortunately it doesn't mean you're not a shill either, mr shill "shilly" macshill :rolleyes:

failsafe · 10-05-2007 1:04pm

gunnery wrote:

failsafe: Im curious: when Bebo set up in 2005 did they send out a whole bunch of emails to get people to join or what did they do?

I never heard anything about that before.

Gunnery

By the way, I tried the nimble thing and it seems pretty cool to me.

Even now if you click on the "find friends" link it asks for your email address and password, and I presume then sends out those generic "hi i'm using this service to share my photos...." email to everyone in your address book. I've never done it but that's where i presume those emails come from

Mossy Monk · 10-05-2007 1:18pm

gunnery wrote:

Mossy Monk and insafehands:

Are you people KGB or SS?

One can only speak for oneself and my answer is no. Thanks for asking though.

Grogg · 13-05-2007 2:29pm

All,

Seems that the BEBO team are freaking out at the competition.
They are now filtering all reference to the words "NIBMLE.ie".

I'd suggest to all that you use "N1MBLE.ie" or "N I M B L E .ie" to get the message across to other users on BEBO.

I can understand BEBO filtering child porn, rude or intrusive language but this takes the biscuit. I only use BEBO cause my GF wants me on board, I do not use NIMBLE and perhaps never will. I just hate when corps and the big bullies force they way upon the peoples. With this, I'm off BEBO. They truly suck. Just like Yahoo and taking peoples photos from Flickr.com (yes, I was a victim), BEBO now is not worth even farting on IMO.

Just FYI

- Grogg

drdre · 13-05-2007 2:32pm

Grogg wrote:

All,

Seems that the BEBO team are freaking out at the competition.
They are now filtering all reference to the words "NIBMLE.ie".

I'd suggest to all that you use "N1MBLE.ie" or "N I M B L E .ie" to get the message across to other users on BEBO.

I can understand BEBO filtering child porn, rude or intrusive language but this takes the biscuit. I only use BEBO cause my GF wants me on board, I do not use NIMBLE and perhaps never will. I just hate when corps and the big bullies force they way upon the peoples. With this, I'm off BEBO. They truly suck. Just like Yahoo and taking peoples photos from Flickr.com (yes, I was a victim), BEBO now is not worth even farting on IMO.

Just FYI

- Grogg

Who cares about NIMBLE, i think its a **** site compared to BEBO.

Grogg · 13-05-2007 2:40pm

I think you are missing my point.

Yes, who cares.

But now BEBO are crossing the line. Free speech and competition are facts of life that should be preserved. I don't care for Nimble myself. Just my freedom.

And you? Hope so.

Karoma · 14-05-2007 12:33am

gunnery wrote:

Mossy Monk and insafehands:

Are you people KGB or SS?

Whats with the third degree? Is this a re-enactment Orvilles 1984?
A nation built around suspicion.........

How odd that both you and The Nimble Team seem to share a connection... Let's go ask Big Brother to check and apply any suitable sitebans adjustments if confirmed.

drdre · 14-05-2007 1:03am

Grogg wrote:

I think you are missing my point.

Yes, who cares.

But now BEBO are crossing the line. Free speech and competition are facts of life that should be preserved. I don't care for Nimble myself. Just my freedom.

And you? Hope so.

I know what you mean, but its their website and not ours so they can really do what they want :cool:

14-05-2007 1:16am

Nimble is overly complicated.

drdre · 14-05-2007 1:19am

Deleted User wrote:

Nimble is overly complicated.

Yeah and is crap compared to other sites.Its so difficult to use and navigate

lawhec · 14-05-2007 10:17pm

Grogg wrote:

I think you are missing my point.

Yes, who cares.

But now BEBO are crossing the line. Free speech and competition are facts of life that should be preserved. I don't care for Nimble myself. Just my freedom.

And you? Hope so.

If you owned a shop would you be willing to allow your front window space to be taken up with large posters of the offers your competitors are offering?

In any case I see nimble have now been blocked on school computers in the North.

Fighting Irish · 18-05-2007 12:56am

cson wrote:

Looking at some of the profiles on bebo.....I fear for the future of literacy in this country. I don't believe for a second we've got 90% literacy rates.

people like you make me laugh, you realise that most people don't care about grammar literacy when it comes to internet/text messages etc

if people want to use proper grammar they can, they just choose not to

Fighting Irish · 18-05-2007 12:58am

I registered with nimble and its sh1ite compared to bebo

Fighting Irish · 18-05-2007 1:01am

Grogg wrote:

All,

Seems that the BEBO team are freaking out at the competition.
They are now filtering all reference to the words "NIBMLE.ie".

I'd suggest to all that you use "N1MBLE.ie" or "N I M B L E .ie" to get the message across to other users on BEBO.

I can understand BEBO filtering child porn, rude or intrusive language but this takes the biscuit. I only use BEBO cause my GF wants me on board, I do not use NIMBLE and perhaps never will. I just hate when corps and the big bullies force they way upon the peoples. With this, I'm off BEBO. They truly suck. Just like Yahoo and taking peoples photos from Flickr.com (yes, I was a victim), BEBO now is not worth even farting on IMO.

Just FYI

- Grogg

:rolleyes:

say you owned a CD shop, would you let customers put adds in your window saying "CDs cheaper in the CD shop down the street" ye didn't think so

phantom_lord · 18-05-2007 6:41am

Fighting Irish wrote:

people like you make me laugh, you realise that most people don't care about grammar literacy when it comes to internet/text messages etc

if people want to use proper grammar they can, they just choose not to

I doubt it, most of them seem too retarded to construct proper sentences.

Just an example I grabbed off a random page:

ryt wel wer d fck is 2 start wit al me gals!aw der fckin mad!i ave a bst mate cald gill!se mad 4 d tatyo!another called jess!NOW dis gal is out of control!den donna!se me dodo!stone cold poper!aw haley se mad so funi! moldey legs(do u remember)!den kerrie!omg dis gal is d dumest bitch around!ha!now shauna f!se aint like us but se buzzin along nd makes d buzz beta!roro god dis gal feeds us 2 stay alive!se like our mams!bex se i 1 crazy gal!nd roybn se is like so funi nd sinead kilroy se just a lil cutie aint dat ryt!!!!lv er 2 bits!!! !den edel god wer is der 2 start wit er se is mad sound nd me best bud!se a mammy now but dat dosent change a ting about er!IF UR IN GREENHILL U NO ME U NO ER!nd u no er u no me aint dat ryt!!!hate fytin wit me mates!!! its d fckin worst!! u dont nno wat u had until u loose dem x x x x

failsafe · 18-05-2007 12:29pm

Lol! To be honest i'm scared to google a section of that because i'd be afraid it's my younger sister's profile (or that one of her equally stupid friends.)

I saw the bebo filter on the nimble.ie, fair play to them for picking up on it.

Oh and yes grogg, i too am fearful that bebo are taking away my liberties by not allowing me to advertise direct competitors via their own website, i'm sure they're also busy burning Irish flags and building a Guantanamo Bay II off the coast of Kerry for nimble users :rolleyes:

Nimble Team · 21-05-2007 9:51pm

Hi All

Thanks for the feedback above. We are a little Irish company taking on the world / Bebo!

We'll take your feedback on board and try and reduce the complexity and make it more user-friendly

All feedback welcomed and appreciated.

Regards,
The nimble Team

p.s. www.nimble.co.uk can also be used/added on Bebo

drdre · 21-05-2007 9:56pm

Nimble Team wrote:

Hi All

Thanks for the feedback above. We are a little Irish company taking on the world / Bebo!

We'll take your feedback on board and try and reduce the complexity and make it more user-friendly

All feedback welcomed and appreciated.

Regards,
The nimble Team

p.s. www.nimble.co.uk can also be used/added on Bebo

Thats great the you found this thread

Nimble Team · 10-09-2007 8:55pm

Hello All,

Just to drop a line and give ye all an update.

Today, Ireland's own social networking website nimble.ie has launched their new site design and several new features. As you can see the site has been given a fresh new layout more in tune with Web 2.0 with fun colours and cool buttons.

New features on the site include photo and video sharing, the ability to create your own quizzes etc. One major design change includes a new presentation page where you can see a summary of everything related to a user, such as guestbook comments, friends, quizzes, personal interests, photos, 20 questions and more.

Two powerful and unique features to nimble include the ability to view recent visitors to the page and the inclusion of a presentation box where the user can write and design to their liking thanks to a handy Microsoft Word-style editor.

Happy Nimbling!

magick · 10-09-2007 9:11pm

nimble is bloody annoying with the amount of info it wants from you, i though this was a page that you can personalise, instead they deamand u make a choise after registering your email name etc otherwise u cannot be allowed to register, what a crock of ****e :mad:

Plug · 18-09-2007 12:43pm

drdre wrote:

Who cares about NIMBLE, i think its a **** site compared to BEBO.

There both bollox, the bastards done me with rasisim:mad:

Tha Gopher · 19-09-2007 2:15am

An irish site attemtping to take on bebo 2 years after its rise is like someone investing heavy money into a venture to reintroduce pagers, electric typewriters and betamax in Ireland.

GLaDOS · 19-09-2007 7:49pm

They're started spamming bebo again....

FOGOFUNK · 19-09-2007 8:05pm

I HATE NIMBLE SO MUCH,I dont really like bebo either, but its required, and has replaced exchanging phone numbers.

The last thing the world needs is another fcuking social networking site.

You need a good slap in the facebook.

Rb · 19-09-2007 8:44pm

If it distracts the many retards who've come across internet connections in a way that Bebo does, then I'm all for it.

I just hope more of the retards on Bebo don't get bored and find Boards.

Terry · 19-09-2007 10:42pm

I find this funny on many levels.

Nimble.ie & Bebo

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